What Retail Would You Bring to Huntsville? (Madison, Mountain Brook: to buy, school)

[A&M Bulldawg]

They may not....OK!!!!!!! I'm all for change! Alot of rooftops are coming to Huntsville, so what does this mean for new shopping centers?

[DavidH74]

Originally Posted by KE111691

They may not....OK!!!!!!! I'm all for change! Alot of rooftops are coming to Huntsville, so what does this mean for new shopping centers?

Maybe so...maybe not. Um...do you read? (I'm wondering at this point) Alot of speculation building has stopped. Just as we said, just cause you build something does not mean people will come. Of the however many thousand new jobs coming here, it does NOT mean that many are coming from out of state. Those jobs, in MANY MANY cases will be filled locally.
Whether it's 2K or 5K or, hell, all 10K, that is STILL not enough to transform us from Huntsville...to someplace else. It'll be growth, but it won't be growth that equates to needing massive new shopping centers by ANY stretch of the imagination. You'd have to add 0's. 100K coming? Okay. MAYBE. Maybe we need more shopping. 10K. Please. Our focus will be roads, not shopping. Our focus should be roads.
We built all these multi-million dollar houses thnking all these rich people were coming from the North. Oops. We forgot that the job growth does not mean population growth in every instance. We forgot what people's perceptions from the North are of AL -- in some cases, I guess they think we trade chickens for houses. They came and found out it still costs a couple hundred thousand plus for a house. They're turned off.
You just don't add ten thousand people and think the world as you know it is going to change.

[autobahn]

We need my favorite Irish store:
Paddy O' Furniture
Paddy O' Furniture - Home

[DavidH74]

Is seeing the size of our specialty stores not proof positive enough for you, KE, that retailers do not see us as a growth market?

[A&M Bulldawg]

I think Huntsville needs a Room to Go and/or a RoomStore, autobahn.

[tammie2]

Originally Posted by KE111691

I think Huntsville needs a Room to Go and/or a RoomStore, autobahn.

Because you want to buy something from them?

If that is the reason, I just checked, you can order and they will deliver to most of the area(I checked a half dozen or so zip codes ranging from Madison to OCR to downtown HSV).

So why do we need a retail store?

[A&M Bulldawg]

Alot of people don't shop on the Internet; they perfer to shop at the stores themselves. If this is case, why are we talking about bringing new reatil to Huntsville if people can just shop over the Internet?

[Southlander]

Yeah, I would never buy furniture unless I had seen it in person, and sat on it. Too many couches are too big for my short frame! I doubt that internet shopping will take over for EVERY kind of item. Or for ALL shopping.

Originally Posted by tammie2

YELLOW PAGES?!?!?!?!? Do they really make those anymore???

Oh, yes, they're still printed...so far. Have you tried to use yellowpages.com? You get all kinds of businesses that are in other parts of the country...and just a few here. It's so frustrating I rarely use it. It costs a business $90 and up a month to be on yellowpages.com. Extra. In addition to what you already pay AT&T.

[A&M Bulldawg]

From previous posts, lots of people feel that way! If I say Huntsville needs this, they'll say something about buying merchandise that that particular retail sells over the Internet! That's defeating the purpose of a store coming here to satisfy people who perfer to buy the merchandise in person.

[nature's message]

Huntsville can only support so much. I posted a reply earlier that I would bring Bvlgari or Diesel to the city. First off, both stores have locations in Atlanta, so they figure it's not really a long drive. Second, Huntsville isn't even on the radar for those stores. It's too small and there is not enough of the wealthy that can support them. However, Huntsville could certainly get a Brook Brothers, Oakley, and such.